Report: Hillary camp unhappy with super PAC

A New York Magazine story on Hillary Clinton included an aide describing “Ready for Hillary,” the grassroots-focused super PAC that sprouted up early this year, as a rogue entity that, contrary to popular opinion, wasn’t sanctioned by her team.

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The comments about “Ready for Hillary” come as Priorities USA, which had been the pro-President Barack Obama super PAC last year, is preparing to morph into a pro-Clinton entity.

“There is nothing they are doing that couldn’t have waited a year,” the piece quoted an aide saying of the “Ready for Hillary” super PAC, which has focused on list-building. “Not a single f—king thing.”

Asked about the aide’s comments to New York Magazine, a spokesman for “Ready for Hillary” said, “You know what? Nearly one million supporters disagree.”

In past on-record comments, Clinton aides have applauded the “energy” that “Ready for Hillary” is harnessing.

The group recently revealed it plans to play in 2014 races, a move that could make the super PAC a more established part of the fabric of Democratic groups and could allow it to prove itself.

The comments come after Clintonland has wrestled with the presence of “Ready for Hillary” for months. The group is operating in her name, but reporters have debated for months whether Clinton’s camp gave the effort a wink and a nod.

Some longtime Clinton hands have signed on, and none were waved off of participating, according to multiple sources. People close to Clinton have been loath to try to force the effort to shut down, according to the sources.

Priorities USA is also not a“sanctioned” super PAC — there is no official entity — but appears set to handle the high-dollar intake, and the paid media campaigns, which are traditionally the province of such outside groups.

Officials with Priorities, some of whom also have long ties to Clintonworld, had been looking to reorient toward Hillary Clinton run for months, multiple sources said. But their presence is not being discouraged by people close to Hillary Clinton, and the hope among Clinton backers is that the two groups can co-exist.